DARIA DOROSH

Artist Statement
I make art as starting points for conversations - in the studio, in the gallery and on social networks.

COSMOLOGIES is a visual narrative that links Human, Planet, and Cosmos. Throughout the work textile acts as adornment, protection, ritual, and commemoration. I began using textile in my work in 2004 as a question - where does art belong in a mobile culture? Will art be constrained to the wall, or will art, like technology, be situated on the body? My inner debate is evidenced in these textile works for both the wall and the body.

In HUMAN, I reflect on my experience of public/private space amplified by our confinement during the pandemic. Has the self been intensified by Instagram and Zoom, and as a result made us oblivious to place? The textile neckwear group, Ashes and Diamonds, marks our human suffering and survival at the close of 2020. It can be worn with an heirloom from the past to spark an inner dialog about continuity and self-compassion. Presented on the wall, each one is entangled with Patternwoman, an iconic figure wandering through the cosmos that I made in 2004.

PLANET is a narrative about the state of our ecosystem. Six digital prints of the Delaware River near my studio show a mapping of information gathered on the Internet and available to all as search engine scientists. The six sculptures and their titles indicate a bitter-sweet crossroads of survival: Cry human, Cry planet, Cry ocean, Remember me, Long wait, Too bad.

In COSMOS, Terrestrial stars show the infinity of patterns in photographs of nature when restructured into prismatic six-sided polygons. The binary of abstraction/representation was seen as opposites in the 1970s, but digital photography reveals a new reading that is collaborative. They are accompanied by Infinity Loops, a group of multi-patterned textile wearables, posted on phantasmic images of gemstones to manifest the generosity of patterns in the universe that exist within us and reverberate beyond us.

Terrestrial Stars: A connection/meditation on technical images as stars that are here among us, nestled in the leaves, in the underbrush, but compiled in the polyhedron patterning of the digital. A cosmic topology, echoes of the universe here on our home planet. The infinite as a variable reflected in the velocity of repetitions. Playing with gods. - Suzanne Bybee

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CV

Past Solo Exhibitions: Cosmologies, 2021
Take Back Your Body, 2018 The Art Of Sleep, 2015 DEEP Play, 2012 Jump Off, 2010
Scraps And Shadows, 1998 Re-constructions: water sculpture & altered photographs, 1995

Past Group Exhibitions: Reviewed and Sold: Whats Next?, 2022 SYMPOIESIS, 2020 (s)(o)(f)(t) (w)(i)(n)(d)(o)(w)(s), 2020 The Scalability Project, 2019 Eleven x Seventeen, 2019 NADA House, 2019
Four Weeks And Forty-Five Years, 2017
Women On The Line, 2017
Who Cares?, 2017
Limitlessness, 2017
Cooperative Consciousness, 2016
Wish You Were Here, 2016
Unframed, 2015
If These Walls... II, 2015
A.I.R. ReFreshed, 2015
Wish you were here, 2015
Wet Paint, 2014
If These Walls..., 2014
Pumping Up The Volume At A.I.R., 2014 But that’s a different story…, 2011 Vestige: Traces of Reality, 2011 New Work by A.I.R. Artists, 1999 The Digital Print, 1998
8 at A.I.R., 1995
Works On Paper, 1995